Perspective Beyond Money.

Mission & Values

Trusted Experts in Private Equity and Investment Banking

Integrity, Determination and Character

The Courtney Group, LLC is an investment banking firm with a focus on capital raising, sales of businesses, acquisitions of businesses and joint venture negotiations. We specialize in the consumer, chemical, financial services, healthcare, distribution, manufacturing, and technology sectors.

The Courtney Group, Incorporated makes private equity investments. We are different in our flexibility – we can make equity investments from $1 million to $100 million, and in our long time horizon – we can own a business for 20 to 30 years. We seek control and non-control equity investments in businesses with revenues of $10 million to $500 million and pre-tax earnings of $2 million to $50 million. We have invested in 18 companies since 1999. We often acquire businesses from sellers seeking to retire or entrepreneurs seeking a partner to help them reach the next level of success. Our goal is to be your trusted partners.

The Courtney Group team is comprised of partners and professionals with substantial operational experience. We are flexible how involved we are, and can provide a lot or a little support depending on a company's needs.

History

In 1995, The Courtney Group opened its doors with a vision that in a world of giant organizations with a broad array of services, there was a need for a small firm that offers the highest levels of professionalism and expertise, and senior-level attention to clients and relationships. In sum: we offer big firm expertise without the big firm or the conflicts that come with it.

In 1999, we expanded into private equity investing, raising an initial pool of $150 million in capital from a single investor. In 2003, the firm moved its headquarters from New York City to Newport Beach, California and expanded our investor base substantially.

Today, we have five senior professionals covering six industry sectors and relationships around the world with hundreds of investors, lenders, and clients.

In a world of ever larger firms, there is an opportunity for talented, entrepreneurial professionals with top-level personal relationships to offer outstanding advice on mergers and acquisitions (buy-side and sell-side), capital raising and capital strategies, and corporate divestitures.

When conflicts of interest are front page news, an advisory partner able to provide objective advice and counsel without any pressure from competing agendas is a requirement.

People matter to us, and working with the right people is critical to success in all our endeavors.

Our Approach

Demonstrated Experience & Advice

“You take things with you from each experience you have. At Morgan Stanley, I learned about a commitment to clients and doing the highest quality job; at Alex. Brown, it was helping entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and a culture of entrepreneurial teamwork; at Wolfensohn, it was an intellectual approach to addressing the challenges of Fortune 500 companies; at Peers & Co., it was about negotiations across borders and how important it is to understand different cultures. At The Courtney Group, we have developed our expertise in financings and valuations, and we work to bring the best ideas and practices from our prior experiences to help the companies we work with."

Standing Out From the Crowd

“We are recognized experts in private equity, investment banking and valuations. Our approach of providing both private equity and investment banking services is a combination of strengthening the relationships we have built over hundreds of transactions, and the love of tackling complex challenges. We enjoy gathering information and synthesizing it. We thrive on working with companies to develop options and then figuring out which among them are optimal.”

How Do You Decide Whether To Be An Investor or Advisor?

“The people we work with tell us how they want to work with us. Once we start a project with a company as an investor or as an advisor, we stay with the approach we’ve developed.”

Our Mission And Values

Mission

Overview

The Courtney Group, LLC is an investment banking firm with a focus on capital raising, sales of businesses, acquisitions of businesses and joint venture negotiations. We specialize in the consumer, chemical, financial services, healthcare, distribution, manufacturing, and technology sectors.

The Courtney Group, Incorporated makes private equity investments. We are different in our flexibility – we can make equity investments from $1 million to $100 million, and in our long time horizon – we can own a business for 20 to 30 years. We seek control and non-control equity investments in businesses with revenues of $10 million to $500 million and pre-tax earnings of $2 million to $50 million. We have invested in 18 companies since 1999. We often acquire businesses from sellers seeking to retire or entrepreneurs seeking a partner to help them reach the next level of success. Our goal is to be your trusted partners.

The Courtney Group team is comprised of partners and professionals with substantial operational experience. We are flexible how involved we are, and can provide a lot or a little support depending on a company's needs.

Our Promise To You...

We promise our investment banking clients senior-level attention and the determination to see the investment banking assignments we accept through the entire process to successful completion. We promise our private equity partners, investors, lenders, advisors, and the companies in which we seek to invest transparency, responsiveness, and good faith dealing.

Our Pledge

At The Courtney Group, we pledge to provide you with the highest level of integrity and expertise; to recommend only what’s suitable for you and your situation; to give you senior-level personalized attention; and to stand by our work and our word.